HISK/Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten/Higher Institute for Fine Arts

🌀 AND THAT’S A WRAP!🌀
Congratulations again to our eleven 2023 HISK Laureates who graduated last Saturday!

Artists include Fabiola Burgos Labra (), Jim Campers (.campers), Hamed Dehqan (), Maëlle Dufour (.dufour), Maud Gourdon (), Danielle Kaganov (.kaganov), Axel Korban (.studio), Axelle Lenaerts (), Paola Siri Renard (), Jivan van der Ende () and Yue Yuan (.yuan_).

Thank you to everyone who participated in the conversations and visited their final exhibition « Worldlines ».

The exhibition is now closed and we would like to take this occasion to give a huge thank you to all our collaborators, this year’s curator of course but also previous guest curators, the numerous visiting lecturers, guest authors, art critics, journalists, translators, graphic designers, exhibition guards…all those who contributed to HISK throughout the years.

Exhibition shots by .vandenbossche 📹

Join us for an afternoon of artist talks, conferences and performances with fantastic guests!

ZATERDAG / SATURDAY 02.12.2023, 12:00-18:00

15:00 Artist Talks / Axelle Lenaerts + Fabiola Burgos Labra (in the exhibition space)
We invite you to discover the respective artistic practices of two 2023 HISK laureates: (in discussion with artist ) and (in discussion with curator ).

16:00 Guest Talk and Publication Launch / A Different Path: Re-Approaching Research In And Through The Arts With a Special Emphasis on Poetry and Poetics, Talk by Michael Baers (in the HISK salon)
In 2022-2023, HISK presented a series of artists’ demonstrations and talks that proposed to revisit the question of art practice and research. This series, organized by Jeremiah Day, is narrated in a new pamphlet that will be presented along with a talk by a key speaker in the series: American born, Berlin based artist and thinker Michael Baers.
Michael Baers will present a patchwork of thoughts related to Day’s own project at HISK concerning today’s neo-liberal approaches to culture and education and the way these redound upon contemporary conceptions of art, especially art’s relation to knowledge production. Baers response will revisit some of his past writings on the topic, as well as the potential “investigative poetry” (a term coined by American poet and counter-cultural figure Ed Sanders) offers as an alternative formulation to ”artistic research.”

17:15 Performance / Tanin, Hamed Dehqan (MILL, )
Tanin is a dance performance by and . It delves into the post-1979 Persian dance and reflects upon the fragile relationship between dance and freedom. Tanin creates a group experience remarking on the beauty of dancing together and touching on themes of western imperialism and hegemony.

Free admission - no registration needed. If you cannot make it this Saturday, we have got you covered! We will meet again the two following Saturdays for another programme of talks and performances taking place on December 9 and December 16. We look forward to welcoming you!

🚩 We are looking for an Exhibition Attendent for our upcoming Worldlines exhibition! 🚩

Are you a student and interested in contemporary art, exhibition projects and/or exhibition making, scenography, event management,… then you might be the one we’re looking for.

Does this spark your interest? Submit your resume and (brief) motivation to [email protected] by 15 October 2023.

For more information about Worldlines, please visit our website. For more information about the job offer and/or something else, please email [email protected].

[NL] 🚩We zijn op zoek naar een enthousiaste suppoost voor onze komende laureaten-tentoonstelling Worldlines! 🚩

Ben je student en geïnteresseerd in hedendaagse kunst, tentoonstellingsprojecten en/of het maken van tentoonstellingen, scenografie, event management,... dan ben jij misschien de persoon die we zoeken.

Spreekt dit je aan? Laat ons dan iets weten! Stuur je cv en (korte) motivatie voor 15 oktober 2023 naar [email protected].

Meer informatie over Worldlines vind je terug op onze website. Voor meer informatie over de vacature en/of iets anders kun je mailen naar [email protected].

Welcome to Worldlines # 1 🌀

The world line of an object is the path that it traces in 4-dimensional spacetime through a series of spacetime events corresponding to the history of said object.

HISK’s artists in residency come from a plethora of cultural environments. Their trajectories are all different and consequently, they develop distinctive practices and methodologies. While each artist draws particular world lines and curves in spacetime throughout their residency, gravity infers mutual influences of worldlines that can be reciprocally modified by the shared incidents they experience. During the course of their journey at HISK, many events prove the opportunity to experience simultaneity and difference.

Held during and marking the second meeting point of the 11 worldlines for an exhibition, this event showcases performances, installations, sculptures, pictures and a series of editions commissioned by HISK.

Performances by and . Artworks and interventions by .campers, , .dufour, , .yuan_, .kaganov, , and .

Curated by (HISK curator 2023).

Zaterdag / Saturday 22.04.2023, 16:00 - 20:00

📍HISK, Gosset site
Gebouw A / Building A
eerste verdieping / first floor
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel

☁️ The Sky Itself ☁️
a draft of sound, movement, remote control cameras and bodybuilders
an evening by Hamed Dehqan, Danielle Kaganov and Jivan van der Ende

Donderdag / Thursday 06.04.2023, 20:00 > 22:00
Deuren / Doors open 19:30

HISK & Needcompany
Gosset site
Gebouw A / Building A (second floor)
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel

During the evening, the three HISK artists Jivan van der Ende, Danielle Kaganov and Hamed Dehqan (in collaboration with Nathaniel Moore) take over the rehearsal space of Needcompany to experiment with a new format: a semi-public presentation where three individual practices go into dialogue. The evening combines works in process, video, dance, performance and installation work.

The live event will be filmed and recorded for research purposes and might be used by the artists. Please let us know if you object beforehand.

This project is part of the research in the arts programme at HISK led by Jeremiah Day.

A Different Path:Re-Approaching Research In And Through The Arts

Thursday 23.03.2023, 20:00 > 23:00, Artist Talk: Slow Reading Club
Friday 24.03.2023, 14:00 > 17:00, Reading Session: Anike Joyce Sadiq

HISK Gosset site
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel

Through demonstrations, lectures and reading sessions in which artists introduce their own works and key texts, an unfolding reflection will take shape on how art, intellectual life, and public culture intersect.

Organised by Jeremiah Day, this first in the series of four public sessions invites artists to exemplify and elaborate on research in and through the arts.

Slow Reading Club is a semi-fictional reading group initiated in 2016 by choreographer and artist . The group deal in constructed situations for collective and individual reading. SRC looks at, probes, and interrupts ‘readership’ as a way to stimulate the contact zones between reader and text, reader and reader, text and text. Slow Reading Club organise large-scale collective reading sessions, make and distribute bootleg publications, produce exhibitions, and give performances. At present they are producing a collectively written road novel set on America’s highways and nourished by its pulp literature.

lives and works in Berlin. Her performative-poetic yet minimalistic conceptual practice interweaves questions concerning the individual and the public with historical, social and spatial site specifics. By the usage of her own body and experience, she not only addresses the „personal as political” but meditates on the logic of representation and on the right to opacity. Her focus lies less on recreating discursive approaches, but rather in setting the frame for experiential relations.

Reservation is required.

Whose Organs Were Those of a Leopard, Slow Reading Club. Louise Dany, Oslo. Photo: Igans Krunglevilius, 2018 & Visited by a Tiger, Anike Joyce Sadiq, 11:00 minute video, 2019.

The HISK commissioned the artists to produce a new set of editions for the year 2022-23. Ten complete sets are available for purchase containing the 23 contributions of all the artists. One complete set, which retails for €3500, comes in a box that will be available for pick-up from the end of February 2023.

23 contributions by 23 artists
Fabiola Burgos Labra - Jim Campers .campers - Wim De Pauw - Ian De Weerdt - Hamed Dehqan - Maëlle Dufour .dufour - Manu Engelen - Antoine Goossens - Maud Gourdon - Danielle Kaganov .kaganov - Axel Korban - Axelle Lenaerts - Zhixin Liao - Linda Jasmin Mayer - Felipe Muhr - Noemi Osselaer - Edouard Pagant - Juan Pablo Plazas - Paola Siri Renard - Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj - Jivan van der Ende - Pei-Hsuan Wang - Yue Yuan .yuan_

Inquiries through [email protected].
HISK Edition 2022 would not have been possible without the indispensable support of:
Tom Dries
Liselotte Van Daele
Lisa Wilkens

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Special thanks for receiving us during the school residency 2022:

🎈We are pleased to announce that Jeremiah Day will be the HISK research coordinator for 2023! This theoretical and content-based guidance includes establishing a dynamic program that provides the artists with a working knowledge of research in and through the arts. 🎈

Jeremiah Day studied art at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles (US, 1997), and completed the residency program at the Rijksakademie (2003-2004). In 2017, the artist earned a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam (VU) with the presentation of A Kind of Imagination that has Nothing to Do with Fiction: Art in Public Life, a practice based project, drawing upon Hannah Arendt and Allan Kaprow as the basis for renewed exploration of art's role in civil society. His most recent publication is If Its For The People, It Needs To Be Beautiful, She Said, (2021) produced in collaboration with Will Holder and accompanying the 2020-21 travelling solo exhibition at the Badischer Kunstverein (DE), Centre d'art Le Lait (FR), and Villa Romana (IT).

Recent solo exhibitions include : Citoyenne Reprise, Jeremiah Day & collaborators, Netwerk Aalst, BE (2021); But not knowing what to do isn’t giving up, is it?, Arcade, Brussels, BE (2021); If It’s For The People, It Needs To Be Beautiful, She Said, Villa Romana, Florence, IT, Centre d’Art Le Lait, Albi, FR, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE (2020); Jeremiah Day, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL (2016). Selected group shows: Waste/d Pavilion, Episode 3, State of Concept, Athens, GR (2022); Project Palace, a centenary, Bozar, Brussels, BE (2022); Desertado (...), Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, PT (2019)

This was Staying in the Gap! The exhibition of the second year HISK artists of 2023.

Artists: Fabiola Burgos Labra , Jim Campers .campers, Hamed Dehqan , Maëlle Dufour .dufour, Maud Gourdon , Danielle Kaganov .kaganov, Axel Korban , Axelle Lenaerts , Paola Siri Renard , Jivan van der Ende , Yue Yuan .yuan_

Curator: Yue Yuan
Graphic Design: Yue Yuan
Typefaces: Blocus by Martin Desinde
Special thanks to .brussels.official

MIND THE GAP!!! We are pleased to announce the exhibition of the second year artists of 2023 ‘Staying in the Gap’.

Artists: Fabiola Burgos Labra , Jim Campers .campers, Hamed Dehqan , Maëlle Dufour .dufour, Maud Gourdon , Danielle Kaganov .kaganov, Axel Korban , Axelle Lenaerts , Paola Siri Renard , Jivan van der Ende , Yue Yuan .yuan_

Curator: Yue Yuan
Graphic Design: Yue Yuan
Typefaces: Blocus by Martin Desinde
Special thanks to Société d’Electricité

Opening:
Friday 20.01.2023, 18:00 - 21:00
Open
21.01.2023 - 5.02.2023
Thursday & Friday, 14:00 – 18:00
Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00

Société d’Electricité
Rue Vanderstichelenstraat 106
1080 Brussel

We are open again! Stop by tomorrow and say hello!

*:･A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards ੈ✩‧₊˚ is the HISK laureates 2022 exhibition constructed within dialogue, through conversations and experiments, assessments and exchanges. A show being imagined, composed and produced with regular meetings held in a kitchen, that stands at the centre of the exhibition space. Come hang out here!

Participating artists: Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

Curator: Yann Chateigné Tytelman
Graphic design:

Open
05.01.2023 > 29.01.2023
Thursday > Friday, 14:00 > 18:00
Saturday > Sunday, 12:00 > 18:00

HISK Gosset site
Building A (first floor)
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel
www.hisk.edu
www.aglitteringruin.com

From 23rd until 26th November, HISK participated in the Biennial Conference of ELIA, the network of European art schools, in Helsinki. The theme was "No Stone Unturned", on the challenges facing art schools today (climate crisis, inequality, political conflict, the changing role of arts education and students’ hunger for radical change). HISK participated in several sessions and mobile visits to cultural spaces as for instance Kiasma, a contemporary art museum in Helsinki. As a member of the general assembly, HISK voted for a new president and new board members. Jan Cools, who served on the board on behalf of LUCA School of Arts, ended his mandate. As HISK, we would like to thank him for his commitment. The conference was hosted by the University of Arts Helsinki.

₊*ੈ꒷˚୨ TODAY! ୧˚꒷ೃ₊
December 4 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: reading of a short story written by the artist, ☕️

HISK laureates exhibition 2022
Curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

HISK
Gosset site – Building A (first floor)
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6
BE 1080 Brussels

Open
3.12.2022 – 23.12.2022
5.1.2023 – 29.1.2023
Thursday & Friday, 14:00 – 18:00
Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00

Graphic design by

*:･A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards ੈ✩‧₊˚OPENS TONIGHT!!!

18:00 – 22:00

HISK laureates exhibition 2022
Curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

2 December 2022 – 29 January 2023

HISK
Gosset site – Building A (first floor)
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6
BE 1080 Brussels

*:･A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards ੈ✩‧₊˚ OPENS TONIGHT!

Opening
Friday 2.12.2022, 18:00 – 22:00

HISK laureates exhibition 2022
Curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

2 December 2022 – 29 January 2023

HISK
Gosset site – Building A (first floor)
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6
BE 1080 Brussels

*:･A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards ੈ✩‧₊˚

Opening
Friday 2.12.2022, 18:00 – 22:00

HISK laureates exhibition 2022
Curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

2 December 2022 – 29 January 2023

HISK
Gosset site – Building A (first floor)
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6
BE 1080 Brussels

Open
3.12.2022 – 23.12.2022
5.1.2023 – 29.1.2023
Thursday & Friday, 14:00 – 18:00
Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00

Photo by Lola Pertsowsky

*:･A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards ੈ✩‧₊˚

Opening
Friday 2.12.2022, 18:00 – 22:00

HISK laureates exhibition 2022
Curated by Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Wim De Pauw , Ian De Weerdt , Manu Engelen , Antoine Goossens , Zhixin Angus Liao , Linda Jasmin Mayer , Felipe Muhr , Noemi Osselaer, Edouard Pagant , Juan Pablo Plazas , Stephanie Rizaj .rizaj , Pei-Hsuan Wang

2 December 2022 – 29 January 2023

HISK
Gosset site – Building A (first floor)
Gabrielle Petitstraat 4 – 6
BE 1080 Brussels

Open
3.12.2022 – 23.12.2022
5.1.2023 – 29.1.2023
Thursday & Friday, 14:00 – 18:00
Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 – 18:00

Photo by Lola Pertsowsky

Who’s Showing Who?
An Evening Reflecting On Artists And Institutions

(Dit programma zal in het Engels gegeven worden / This programme will be held in English)

Donderdag / Thursday 20.10.2022, 18:30 > 21:00

Anike Joyce Sadiq, screening Visited By A Tiger
Lieven De Boeck, presentation / performance / dance session
Anike Joyce Sadiq, Luck’s Got Nothing To Do With It, artist talk
Drinks and discussion, moderated by Jeremiah Day

📍HISK Gosset site
Gebouw A / Building A (eerste verdieping / first floor)
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel

The current discussions around the past documenta, the funding cuts for culture across Europe and many shifting artistic approaches and programs, seem to reveal that existing assumptions can no longer be taken for granted.

In this evening length program, rather than try to approach these issues as concepts, Jeremiah Day invites the public to consider two artistic positions that emerge in close reflection of them as part of the working conditions of the field.

Lieven De Boeck, in the context of his current Doctoral research, is exploring the question of “when is art?” or how institutional frames condition the potential for culture. While proposing first of all a novel form for what research in the arts might be, Lieven further explores different modalities, considering art historical examples from the level of the body.

Anike Joyce Sadiq recent solo exhibition at Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart broke up open the question of the public as stakeholder in cultural institutions, in theory and practice. Coming from questions of social and racial justice, Sadiq’s approach is less “institutional critique” than “institutional challenge,” pushing for different modes and standards of publicness.

Reserveren is vereist via de link in bio / Reservation is required through the link in bio

FACES AND POWERS, Lezing door / Lecture by John C. Welchman
(Deze lezing zal in het Engels gegeven worden / This lecture will be held in English)

Donderdag / Thursday 06.10.2022, 20:00 > 22:00

HISK Gosset site
Gebouw A / Building A (eerste verdieping / first floor)
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6
1080 Brussel

🏷️ The first-year HISK residents are back at the for the one week workshop „Being more honest about the process“ to explore printmaking as part of their artistic practice. 🏷️

In addition to learning printmaking techniques and processes, the workshop also aims to develop and investigate conceptual frameworks of printmaking as part of a contemporary art practice. Questions around the visibility of the making process of an art work will be discussed together with how this visibility might impact the meaning and reading of this work. Is there a way to make the artist more visible by being more honest about the process?

The workshop is lead by artists and printmakers Lisa Wilkens and Liselotte van Daele () as well as the technical staff at the Frans Masereel Centre.
Simultaneously with their stay, a group of young curators, writers and critics will reside at the centre for a writing workshop. This group was put together by and .

Participating artists: .yuan_, , , , .dufour, , .campers,

Writing workshop participants:
Sam van Landschoot (), Paula Rodriguez Sardinas (), Lena Vercauteren (), Ezra Babski , Jef Declerq (), Gertjan Oskar (.oskar), Guus van der Velden (), Koi Persyn ()

⚡️We are very pleased to announce that Sophie Lapalu will be the new HISK curator for the first-year candidate laureates for the second half of 2022!⚡️

To read more about our new curator , visit our website.

Picture by Clément Harpillard.

Marc Claes (11/04/1970 – 20/08/2022)

We are sad to announce the passing of HISK alumnus Marc Claes. He passed away on 20 August 2022 after a long battle with leukaemia.

🚩This was the HISK alumni exhibition What’s in an artwork? Thank you all for being there! 🚩

What's in an artwork? highlighted the versatility and diversity of the HISK alumni. Curator Bert Ghysels titled the exhibition What's in an artwork? in analogy with the expression 'what's in a name'.

Participating artists: Geert Goiris, Cathérine Claeyé (), Carlos Aires (.studio), Philip Metten (), Kris Verdonck (), Marc Claes, Anneke Eussen (), Christian Noirfalise (), Adam Leech (), Ante Timmermans (), Max Sudhues (), Filip Vervaet (), Niklaus Rüegg (), Maarten Vanden Eynde (), Assaf Gruber (), Femmy Otten (), Paulien Föllings (), Patrick Wokmeni (), Kasper Bosmans (), Leyla Aydoslu (), Flurin Bisig (), Jóhanna Kristbjörg Sigurðardóttir (), Marie-fleur Lefebvre ().

📍HISK Gosset site, Building A (first floor)
Rue Gabrielle Petitstraat 4-6, 1080 Brussel

All pictures by Dani Ghercă.